Daily Meditation: Sunday, January 31, 2010

Laws of matter, the - which all beings must be subject to when coming into incarnation

01/31/2010

It sometimes happens that great spirits, turning their gaze towards earth, will go before the lords of destiny, the twenty-four elders, and say, 'Although I am free to stay here and enjoy all the splendours of heaven forever, grant me permission to go below and help all those suffering human beings.' And the lords allow them to go below. But once below, they are subjected to the limitations of the physical plane: the cold, hunger, tiredness, illness and death. Their spirit comes from a great height, but once they have agreed to come down into matter they must be subject to its laws. Of course, thanks to the power of their spirit, they have a greater ability to face the trials of earthly life than ordinary humans. But the physical world is still the physical world, and spirits, however great, that decide to incarnate into matter must constantly fight to master it and to find again within themselves the freedom they possessed above.